Background
Niki Lauda was joined by Alain Prost, who narrowly missed out on the 1983 Championship, at McLaren for the 1984 season. John Barnard designed the MP4/2, heavily based on the MP4/1E, and used the TAG-Porsche V6 engine. The car featured carbon brakes and excellent fuel consumption, along with two technically minded and tactical drivers, the team dominated the 1984 season, with 12 wins between them, the highest of for a single team at that time. Though Prost took 7 victories to Lauda's 5, it was Lauda who would take his third World Championship by the closest margin in F1 history, only half a point.The MP4/2 would go on to take another 2 titles (is that a spoiler? it was 33 years ago) and begin a period of domination by McLaren where, besides 1987, they won every championship til 1991.
Minichamps
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| Minichamps |
Score: 6/10
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| Minichamps 436840008 |
A World Champions collection of the model was also released in the mid-noughties, coming with an updated driver and helmet. I'm not a big fan of the mid-noughties Minichamps helmets, but the driver figure is much better. Other than that, I've not noticed any further changes. It is quite a rare collectible model.
Score: 6/10
Score: 6/10
Atlas
Here's the Atlas version of the MP4/2. I'm not a great fan of Atlas cars, but I've seen them do much worse, but despite its cheap prices, I'm still not really tempted to get this one.
True Scale Models
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| TSM TSM12SS4 |
But if you do have cash to spend, this is the one to get and there's only 999 of them. A lovely resin model from TSM which captures the car beautifully for me. My only slight complaint, and it is a tiny complaint, is that more of the rear wing should be white.
Score: 9/10
For more of the World Champions series, click here: https://fongugp4.blogspot.com/search/label/World%20Champions
